Word: pick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson supporters are complaining about the way Jackson found out. A reporter in the airport informed Jackson of Dukakis decision to pick Senator Bentsen as his running mate. Dukakis said that he phoned Jackson but the reverend was already on a plane going to Washington...
...hoping that Dukakis was going to pick Jackson," Prarie View A&M student Kevin Walls said. "I'm going to support the Democratic ticket because I'm a Democrat. I guess, in a way, it's good that Jesse wasn't on the ticket. Some racist idiot may have tried to kill...
Like many teenagers on a Friday night, James Cooney needed a car to pick up his girlfriend. He borrowed his good friend Barry Bootan's father's Chevrolet, banged it into a pole and racked up $900 worth of body damage. To come up with the money, the two New York City prep school graduates hatched a bizarre robbery scheme. Over the next 48 hours, youngsters who had never been in trouble played out every parent's nightmare. A minor scrape gave way to panic, then to terror. All judgment vanished. At the end, Cooney, 18, was dead, and four...
...part Hispanicized English, one part Americanized Spanish and more than a little fractured syntax, Spanglish is a bit like a Robin Williams comedy routine: a crackling line of cross-cultural patter straight from the melting pot. Often it enters Anglo homes and families through the children, who pick it up at school or at play with their young Hispanic contemporaries. In other cases, it comes from watching TV; many an Anglo child watching Sesame Street has learned uno dos tres almost as quickly as one two three...
Blacks are in a similar situation to the last two elections. There is the pick between Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis, and Vice President George Bush...